The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are ‘You'll Never Know What We DidÂ’ by Done With Mirrors, and Just Outside Westminster Cathedral Today... by Joee Blogs -- A Catholic Londoner.  Here are the full results of the vote.

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Results are in -- and a pair of excellent posts were the winners in this week's voting by the Watcher's Council.

The winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Your Chance of Dying in a Terrorist Attack by Socratic Rhythm Method, and And At Night, I Dream Of You... by Villainous Company.  All members, please be sure to link to both winning entries (and to the full results of the vote) in a post.  Thanks to everyone for all the great entries this week...  I'm eager to see next week's entries!  Here are the full tallies of all votes cast:

Votes	Council link
2  2/3	Your Chance of Dying in a Terrorist Attack Socratic Rhythm Method
2	Three Strands Not Easily Broken Soccer Dad
2	9/11 Ambiguities ShrinkWrapped
1  1/3	A Little Journalistic Arrogance Rhymes With Right
1	Pronoun Trouble Done With Mirrors
2/3	Bush Only Confessed to a Crime, if You DonÂ’t Actually Read the Law. Or a Calendar. The Sundries Shack
2/3	9/11, Five Years Later Joshuapundit
1/3	The Terrorist Attacks of 9-11: Views from the Classroom The Education Wonks
1/3	The Danish Face in the NATO Picture Gates of Vienna
1/3	America Does Diplomacy The Glittering Eye
1/3	Angel M. Pabon and the 2996 AbbaGav
1/3	The Tears No Longer Come Right Wing Nut House

Votes	Non-council link
1  2/3	And At Night, I Dream Of You... Villainous Company
1  1/3	Ten Reasons Why the West Will Lose the War on Terror (the pessimistÂ’s view) TMH's Bacon Bits
1  1/3	Countdown To 9/11: My Days With the Dead Greetings from the French Hill
1  1/3	The Shadow of Our Hand The Belmont Club
1  1/3	A General Theory of Just About Everything Cross-Currents
1	38 Years of Terrorism Alpha Patriot
2/3	9/11 + 5, Part II American Future
2/3	One Brave Little Girl Electric Venom
2/3	Off the Net (and Off the Mark) In From the Cold
2/3	9/11 and News Reporting on Jihadist Terrorism Counterterrorism Blog
2/3	The Disunited States of America Chicago Boyz
1/3	Proportional (Mis)Representation Discriminations
1/3	The Gods of the Copybook Headings Canker

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This just in from the Watcher's Council!

the winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are ItÂ’s Not a War. ItÂ’s a Trendy Buzzword! by The Sundries Shack, and Hezbollah Probably Lost the War, But They May Never Have Been In It To Win by Mere Rhetoric.  All members, please be sure to link to both winning entries (and to the full results of the vote) in a post.  I actually had to break a three-way tie in the council category this week...  I thoroughly enjoyed Rick Moran's piece about the utter refutation of the wacko 9/11 conspiracy theories, and I also enjoyed reading Freedom Fighter's pessimistic take on the troubles Jews are having in Western Europe, but Jimmie Bise's spirited defense of Bush's "Islamic Fascism" riff ultimately won me over.  Socratic Rhythm Method was the only member unable to vote this week, and the only member affected by the 2/3 vote penalty.  Thanks to everyone for all the great entries this week...  I'm eager to see next week's entries!  Here are the full tallies of all votes cast:

Votes	Council link
2  2/3	ItÂ’s Not a War. ItÂ’s a Trendy Buzzword! The Sundries Shack
1  2/3	It Is Time for Jews to Think About Leaving Western Europe Joshuapundit
1  2/3	9/11 Tin Foil Hats Are Melting Right Wing Nut House
1  1/3	Condi's Civil War Done With Mirrors
1  1/3	Reasons for Optimism: Part V ShrinkWrapped
1	Students Swearing In Class: Tolerating The Intolerable? The Education Wonks
2/3	The Law's Power to Combat Implicit Bias Socratic Rhythm Method
2/3	Translating Khatami -- Don't Worry, He's Moderate AbbaGav
1/3	New Orleans, One Year After The Glittering Eye

Votes	Non-council link
2  2/3	Hezbollah Probably Lost the War, But They May Never Have Been In It To Win Mere Rhetoric
1  1/3	Friday, September 01, 2006 Gideon's Blog
1  1/3	Repeal McCainFeingold Going to the Mat
1	UN: No Right To Self-Defense In International Law Daled Amos
1	MFers Tea Party Tom Rants
1	The Smell of Death Winds of Change
2/3	Friday in Jerusalem Izfone
2/3	Discontinuities, Positive and Negative, Great and Small Dinocrat
2/3	Carleson on Welfare Barone Blog
1/3	America Online: Making a Race Issue Where There Isn't One The Colossus of Rhodey
1/3	UN Report Denies "Right" of Self Defense Alpha Patriot

It was a great week with some great nominees, so congratulations to all who participated.

And if you want a chance o be nominated this week, take a look here for the Watcher's offer of Link Whorage.

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Without further ado, here are this week's results!

And now...  the winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Empire and Apocalypse by Gates of Vienna, and Check or Checkmate? Death by Cop on the Global Stage by Kobayashi Maru.  All members, please be sure to link to both winning entries (and to the full results of the vote) in a post.  I actually had to break a tie in the non-council category this week...  Ms. Cornelius made an interesting comparison between high school and Dante's concentric Circles of Hell, but I ultimately cast my lot for Kobayashi Maru's bleak analysis of our struggle against Islamofascism.  Two members were unable to vote this week...  but The Sundries Shack was the only member affected by the 2/3 vote penalty.  Thanks to everyone for all the great entries this week...  I'm eager to see next week's entries!  Here are the full tallies of all votes cast:

Votes	Council link
2  1/3	Empire and Apocalypse Gates of Vienna
2	Targeted Killings, Moral Consideration Soccer Dad
2	Meanwhile, in Darfur... Joshuapundit
1	Say Anything AbbaGav
2/3	Flag Flapped In Colorado The Education Wonks
2/3	Valid Pedagogical Purpose -– Poor Pedagogical Methodology Rhymes With Right
1/3	Save the Electoral College! Right Wing Nut House
1/3	Pluto Struck Down As Unconstitutional Socratic Rhythm Method

Votes	Non-council link
3	Check or Checkmate? Death by Cop on the Global Stage Kobayashi Maru
2	When Teaching School Is Like... A Divine Comedy A Shrewdness of Apes
1  1/3	Shaw's "But" Proves Him an Ass Caerdroia
1	Anchoress Called on to "Retract" Support for Rudy The Anchoress
1	Niall Ferguson on the 21st Century The Belmont Club
2/3	The First Scene of Ehud Olmert's Last Act Israel Matzav
2/3	All the News ThatÂ’s Fit To Blackout Blue Crab Boulevard
1/3	Walking Among the Tent Camps Publius Pundit
1/3	A Greek Tragedy: Glass Half-Empty Pixane
1/3	NYTimes Watch: It's Not Easy Being Blind Villainous Company
1/3	"Melting Pot" of Victims Shows Depth of Muslim Integration Point Five

Congratulations all around -- especially to my Non-Council nominee, Ms. Cornelius.

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